Oops. I left this one out. How rich.
"Economic excesses?" Who decides? I presume you are referring, e.g., to SUVs. Shall we put Richard W. in charge of what kind of vehicles people get to drive?
If Bill Gates can afford the upkeep on a Gigantor SUV, including the gas bill, what business is it of yours?
One man's economic excess is another man's reasonable standard of living. Our "economic excesses" seem to be what everybody else in the world wants.
"Economic excesses" are code words for radical egalitarianism--the philosophy which seeks to make everyone equal by making everyone equally poor.
I invite you to cease your own economic excess. Give all you own to the poor, and wander as a mendicant seeking alms. Live the lifestyle of Mother Teresa, or Heinrich Sosa. Then you might have the moral authority to remark on "economic excesses" from your $1500 Gateway computer, running on electricity generated from fossil fuels, having just completed Christmas dinner running to 3500 calories.
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E.
--Boris
My god. That is the perfect post.
Give 'em hell, brother. I'm with you.
Actually, I could care less about what type of vehicle people drive. I also have no problem with people living within the standard of living that they can afford. Unfortunity, our standard of living is based on consumerism and credit and our entire economy is dependent on the expansion of both. This false "wealth creation" leads to excesses. I have no debt and depend on the government for no handouts, therefor I live within my means.
You really do need to break the chains of your own linear thinking. You keep going back to the party line play book for things like SUV's and nonsense like that. In your own small mind, if someone questions a war with Iraq, they are against SUV's and need to be monks. You really are a silly person.
Richard W.